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Spring marks the opening of the `Church of Baseball’
(RNS) Megachurch pastor Rick Warren stood on the mound at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif., last Easter Sunday and delivered his pitch.
"Baseball is a game of numbers in which every player falls short of perfection," said the best-selling author and evangelical powerhouse. "Similarly,...
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COMMENTARY: The virtue of virtue
(RNS) Last winter, while on a trip to Southern California, theologian N.T. Wright spent some time strolling through Laguna Beach, the seaside village I happen to call home.
He wandered into one of our many charming boutiques -- he called it, perhaps more accurately, a "junk shop" -- a...
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COMMENTARY: The Christmas gift you can give to yourself
(RNS) The following is an actual exchange, unedited, except to remove the profanity.
The setting: Mid-morning at a suburban gift boutique. The time: The week before Christmas. The players: The pleasant store clerk, a 40-something soccer mom-type and me (browsing for stocking stuffers)...
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Church scores with men on a football Sunday
EAST ORANGE, N.J. (RNS) The Rev. Dwight Gill figures if there is one thing that will bring more men to church, it's football.
So Sunday (Nov. 29) at New Hope Baptist Church, NFL didn't stand for National Football League, but rather for New Found Life -- as in the church's annual NFL s...
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Amish sharks (via The Onion)
From the Onion: Amish Woman Knew She Had Quilt Sale The Moment She Laid Eyes On Chicago Couple
LANCASTER, PA _Repeatedly referring to them as "easy money," Amish quilt shop proprietor Mary Stolzfus, 43, said Monday that as soon as she noticed Tom and Helen Foreman's matching Chicago C...
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Rivals find common ground on religious grounds
It took, of all things, a Mets fan, to resolve a religious conflict that surfaced around an upcoming Red Sox-Yankees game. Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that it will move back the Sept. 27 game between the famous rivals to a 1 p.m. start to accommodate Yom Kippur, which begi...
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United Church of Canada: No churchwide boycott of Israel
(RNS) The United Church of Canada General Council adopted a resolution Thursday (Aug. 13) that denies calls for a churchwide boycott of Israel, but encourages church members to consider boycotts to help resolve to the Middle East conflict.
"The United Church has not begun or approved...
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COMMENTARY: Hey, religious partisans, relax
SAN FRANCISCO -- Which is the "real" San Francisco?
The city we saw from the sky, or the son who greeted us with a big smile and big hugs? We're here to see our son, of course, so the rest was real estate.
Maybe the "real" San Francisco was the epic downtown that suddenly swung into v...
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Faith in Football?
Looks like Florida Gators' quarterback Tim Tebow is tackling prison inmates and other potential believers with his faith. Sports Illustrated profiled Tebow using his force off the field as a Christian missionary man.
From the story: "Watching Tebow zip passes into the seams of opposin...
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I Belong to Jesus
The Brazilian football (or soccer for those of us Americans) team was chastized by FIFA, world football's governing body, for bearing their souls and chests during the finals of the Confederations Cup last month.
Stripping out of their jerseys to show T-shirts that read "I Belong to J...
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